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There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

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The Finns are closing ranks on the security situation. "The US has issued an ultimatum, demanding that Europe agree on the terms of Ukraine's surrender within three weeks. If not, the US intends to withdraw its forces from Eastern Europe," says MEP Mika Aaltola. www.hbl.fi/2025-02-20/m...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

submitted 3 days ago • 108 comments

Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

submitted 2 days ago • 193 comments

BRAVO and THANK YOU!

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

You know things are bad when you agree with Three Shirts McGee.

submitted 2 days ago • 492 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 1368 comments

The global South is leading in keeping us all safe. 1.Rwanda &Tanzania contained marburg outbreaks 2.Uganda is fighting Ebola 3. DRC is fighting #mpox Knowledge can flow from the global South to North. With CDC EIS gutted, consider Africa CDC's AES www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/02/17/a...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

I keep thinking of this quote from the Great Gatsby:  “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

I'd bet cash money that he cut a deal to get a private mail delivery contract, and to hand over his project to electrify the USPS truck fleet to Tesla in exchange for his resignation. Just a hunch.

submitted 4 days ago • 616 comments

💥ATTENTION FEDS💥 All the termination letters going out that we've seen use "inadequate performance" as the reason for termination. SAVE YOUR PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS. Tell your friends who aren't on bluesky! Probationary employees can't be fired for "poor performance" if their performance is not poor

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

submitted 4 days ago • 1263 comments

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

submitted 4 days ago • 1111 comments

When my class was elected in 2010, we cut congress’ own budget and our personal ones by about 10 percent. This one should cut theirs by about 20, and each office should lay off a couple employees. Same DOGE is requiring. Make every @gop answer

submitted 4 days ago • 436 comments

He’s golfing right now. Check back next week.

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Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."

submitted 4 days ago • 1092 comments

Tom Homan is afraid of AOC, and he should be. Bullies always crumble when people forcefully stand up to them. More of this, please

submitted 4 days ago • 220 comments

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

submitted 6 days ago • 827 comments

We agree.

submitted 5 days ago • 471 comments

Happy Presidents’ Day to the leaders who put country over ego, upheld their oath, and left our democracy stronger than they found it. To any other presidents, I wish you the day you deserve.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

This WaPo piece has something valuable inside: the names of some of the grownups running DOGE behind the scenes. The Incels are a distraction. These people are real. It'd be helpful for people in the agencies to ID anyone from DOGE for...reasons. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 5 days ago • 404 comments

He’s been co-POTUS for 4 weeks. Not even a month. And they’re already calling for the likely future leader of the Democratic Party—a nonwhite woman—to be put in a cage. Twitter has many tweets like the one below. Everyone needs to understand: America is on very limited time now. Fascism is here.

submitted 6 days ago • 459 comments

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries: "Captain Chaos and extreme MAGA Republicans spent last year promising to lower the high cost of living and running away from Project 2025 as if it didn't exist. They've spent this year implementing the most extreme parts of the Project 2025 agenda." Bingo.

submitted 6 days ago • 79 comments

Trump officials have terminated more than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration without realizing that they oversee America’s nuclear weapons. They are now trying to rescind the terminations.

submitted 7 days ago • 380 comments

Tom Homan basically admits to a quid pro quo for dropping the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams in exchange for enforcing Donald Trump's mass deportation plan. "If he doesn't come through...I'll be in his office, up his butt, saying 'where the hell is the agreement we came to?'" Vile.

submitted 8 days ago • 407 comments

According to six witnesses and the accuser, Republican Matt Schlapp, the Chairman of CPAC, allegedly sexually assaulted a man at the bar and restaurant that he owns last weekend in Virginia. This guy should be in jail already.

submitted 9 days ago • 169 comments

The advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province threatens to trigger a humanitarian catastrophe in an area already housing thousands of displaced people, the provincial governor said reut.rs/3QgJPxP

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Elon Musk: I have a wild thought. I must post it. Conscience: Shouldn't you check if it's true? Elon: I'm really rich. It must be true. Experts: It's not true. Elon: Fuck you. You're not rich. MAGA: Elon must be right. He's really rich.

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The debt itself is not the emergency. Inequality is. And DOGE is cutting programs for the poor to clear the way for Trump’s tax cuts for corporations and the rich, making it worse. DOGE is a transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top. See it for what it is.

submitted 9 days ago • 70 comments

“I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.” US Secretary of Defence, February 12, 2025. Everything changed today.

submitted 10 days ago • 487 comments

Paul Martin, the inspector general for the USAID, has been fired after resisting the administration. Just a day ago, his office released a report warning that staff reductions and spending freezes put hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars at risk of misuse and waste. This is the way.

submitted 11 days ago • 329 comments

“This is Trump’s Afghanistan withdrawal.” Wow. I had not thought Elon Musk and Donald Trump's gutting of USAID in those terms. Here is the article that #Maddow is talking about now with Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.

submitted 10 days ago • 844 comments

NEW: China’s Salt Typhoon spies are still hacking telecoms—now by exploiting cisco routers. Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn’t stopped or even slowed its operations. https://wrd.cm/4hBQLBK

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

Tulsi Gabbard has just been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence. 😫

submitted 10 days ago • 1277 comments

This one was censored in the US so not sure how many of you caught this before, but little X knows about the election rigging. Which is why Musk has effectively kidnapped him and doesn't allow him to be with his mother or other family.

submitted 10 days ago • 844 comments

Rep. Jasmine Crockett roasts the newly-formed DOGE subcommittee Chairwoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, for missing "every single one of those improper payment hearings" in the House Oversight Committee. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 10 days ago • 317 comments

Pop quiz: People are saying the kid says “you’re not the president you need to go away” — do y’all hear it too?

submitted 10 days ago • 3643 comments

This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 626 comments

House GOP wants $4 TRILLION dollar debt ceiling increase. You marks really thought the world’s richest man and the guy with the golden toilet seats were really going to “fight the elites” for you? Nah, they just want their tax breaks.

submitted 10 days ago • 783 comments

So unelected private citizen Elon Musk held an unusual press conference in the Oval Office yesterday alongside two toddlers. His young son… And Donald Trump.

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Raskin: "Trump is suing CBS for $20b in damages because, check this out, he believes an interview with Kamala Harris produced too favorable an impression of her. That means I could sue Fox News because I think their interview with Trump produce too favorable an impression. I mean, this is lunacy."

submitted 10 days ago • 628 comments

Crockett: "I understand when people say they are concerned about our debt, as they should be. But if you really want to look at the problem, it's probably with the Trump administration. We know that that administration, the last time they were in, ran our debt up an additional $8 trillion."

submitted 10 days ago • 103 comments